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Recent Coverage (68 articles)

Cutting the controversy from the density debate

26 April 2026 Mention
The West Australian

The changing role of planning

20 April 2026 Mention
SA Planning Commission

Concern over plan for six-storey community housing in Prahran, with just five car parks

12 April 2026 News
The Age

The apartment experiment

29 March 2026 Mention
ABC

The ‘starfish’ city: How Melbourne’s shape is pushing young workers out

14 March 2026 Interview
The Age

Treasury recruits prominent YIMBY economist to lead housing team

11 March 2026 Mention
AFR

Inner-city mega-council floated as mayors face financial cliff

25 February 2026 Mention
The Age

Where will Victoria’s new homes be built? Competing Liberal and Labor visions are as much about politics as planning

25 February 2026 News
The Guardian

Victorian opposition to expand Melbourne's CBD, fast-track growth area homes under housing plan

24 February 2026 News
ABC

The 20-storey divide: Melbourne’s high-density push stalled by numbers that don’t stack up

21 February 2026 News
The Age

Homeowners fight developer over village

20 February 2026 Interview
A Current Affair

Draft maps indicate heights and setbacks for 23 of Victoria’s Activity Centres

12 February 2026 News
ArchitectureAu

'Game of Monopoly': wiggle room on high-rise maps

10 February 2026 News
Associated Australian Press

High-rise v High Street: The battle for the soul of Thornbury

6 February 2026 Mention
The Age

Melbourne is in the middle of a housing revolution – have the yimbys already won?

11 January 2026 News
The Guardian

Thornbury residents devise their own housing plan as alternative to activity centre

30 December 2025 News
The Age

YIMBY is a misnomer. They haven't got backyards

10 December 2025 Interview
AFR

The real reasons property prices look set to climb again in 2026

29 November 2025 Mention
Australian Property Investor

Who cares if Jess Wilson is a millennial? What’s more important is if she’s a NIMBY

24 November 2025 Mention
Crikey

3AW - Should we be building 3-storeys across Melbourne?

5 November 2025 Interview
3AW

Neighbours lose appeal rights in new laws to slash planning approval times

28 October 2025 Mention
The Age

Victorian premier vows to scrap ‘old-fashioned Nimby’ planning laws, fast-track homes and curb rights to object

27 October 2025 News
The Guardian

Mid-rise developments could loom over suburbs, secret documents reveal

7 October 2025 News
The Age

Is there too much heritage?

6 October 2025 Interview
ABC Radio

NIMBYs, YIMBYs — and BIMBYs: The new group in Australia's housing stoush

1 October 2025 News
SBS

New planning rules reach for the sky

21 September 2025 News
Brunswick Voice

A 7-degree angle stopped this Elwood home extension, and exposed a heritage fight

18 September 2025 News
The Age

Brighton locals vow to protect their seaside suburb from ‘Gold Coast high-rises’

10 September 2025 News
The Age

Quote from our member Ryan Reynolds

‘Big decision to be made’: Piedimonte’s plan dashed by council, sale on the cards

9 September 2025 News
The Age

Councils ‘blindsided’ as new high-rise hubs are unveiled

9 September 2025 News
The Age

How the Woollahra development could redraw politics in Sydney’s east

4 September 2025 News
AFR

Victorian Liberal members to push for regulated cannabis market at state council

1 September 2025 News
The Guardian

Call for young Victorians to be paid for their two cents on the state’s future

30 August 2025 News
The Age

Housing targets falling short in nearly all Victorian council areas

25 August 2025 News
The Age

The rules you must follow when building a home – and how much extra it costs

17 August 2025 Mention
The Age

Locals fought for years to block development in South Melbourne. It may be harder to do so again

5 August 2025 News
The Age

They’re coming to the West but most people haven’t even heard of them

31 July 2025 News
The Westsider

What’s slowing down housing development?

26 July 2025 Mention
ABC

Is private office space a public good? SRL density plan suggests so

17 July 2025 Mention
The Age

The rise of the YIMBY movement

15 July 2025 Interview
ABC Radio

The housing crisis is being managed by the wrong people

13 July 2025 Op-Ed
AFR

The fight over your backyard: Why NIMBY has become a ‘dirty word’

12 July 2025 Interview
ABC

us tech billionaires fund australian yimby battle

10 July 2025 News
AFR

Developers may hate Victoria, but it’s shaming other states on housing

26 June 2025 News
AFR

Abbotsford Convent fights plan to ‘wall off’ iconic spire with retirement village

16 June 2025 News
The Age

Apartments get green light despite breaching Victoria’s liveability rules

15 June 2025 News
The Age

Melbourne Mornings - On what Abundance means for Australia

3 June 2025 Interview
ABC Radio

Interview with Rafael Epstein, Melbourne Mornings, ABC Radio

2 June 2025 Mention
ABC Radio

A fight over Woolworths shows what’s wrong with Australian cities

26 May 2025 News
The Nightly

The battle for Melbourne

14 May 2025 News
Inside Story

Quoted from our inquiry appearence

Piedimonte’s inches closer to revamp as council considers laneway sale

12 May 2025 News
The Age

Melbourne suburbs hailed as ‘NIMBY paradise’ revealed

25 April 2025 News
realestate.com.au

How building more apartments could make these rich Melbourne suburbs more inclusive

22 April 2025 News
The Age

ABC Radio Melbourne’s Housing Panel

21 April 2025 Interview
ABC Radio

High-profile Liberal candidate who pitched herself as a renter admits she owns two properties

6 April 2025 News
The Guardian

House prices in Melbourne's eastern suburbs on a roller coaster, but young people don't get to ride

13 March 2025 News
The Eastern Melburnian

The high-rise towers planned for this bayside suburb will shock most people, residents say

2 March 2025 News
The Age

Footscray Housing: Melbourne’s missing middle?

28 February 2025 News
The Westsider

Fracas over Housing Supply Reform in VIC

25 February 2025 News
Other

Automatic green light for townhouses, small apartments to speed up builds

24 February 2025 News
The Age

Council rejection means off-the-shelf apartment proposal won’t get off the ground

24 February 2025 News
The Age

Bold or a ‘capitulation’? Victoria’s premier claims Labor’s reworked building goals are still on target

23 February 2025 News
The Guardian

Victorian housing targets reduced in some Melbourne suburbs under government's final plan

23 February 2025 News
ABC

The Allan government has shrunk its suburban high-rise plans. Here’s what’s changed

22 February 2025 News
The Age

Car-free housing development approved in Coburg North

30 January 2025 News
Brunswick Voice

Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing

18 April 2024 exclusive
The Guardian

Revamp call for city’s planning system to build with beauty and end the ugly

11 March 2024 exclusive
The Age

Paris streetscapes, Berlin vibes: Call to revamp Melbourne’s ‘missing middle’

9 October 2023 exclusive
The Age

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